Episode 47: Translation special with KT Billey, Anna Rosenwong, & Gregory Pardlo
On this episode, poetry in translation and an essay on translation. But it’s also all about love, isolation, communication, and all the things words can and can’t do about that. KT Billey and Anna Rosenwong read their translations, and Gregory Pardlo reads his essay, “On Translation.”
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K.T. Billey’s Vulgar Mechanics (seeking publication) was a finalist for the 2015 Pamet River Prize from YESYES books. Originally from rural Alberta, Canada, her poems have appeared in CutBank, The New Orleans Review, Prelude, Poor Claudia, and others, and her poem “Girl Gives Birth to Thunder” won Vallum’s 2015 Poetry Prize. Assistant Editor for Asymptote, she translates from Icelandic and Spanish and lives in New York City. See more at ktbilley.com.
Anna Rosenwong is an editor, translator, poet, and educator. Her publications include Rocío Cerón’s Diorama (winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award), José Eugenio Sánchez's Suite Prelude a/H1N1, Climax with Double Cheese, and a longer forthcoming volume, as well as an original collection of poetry, By Way of Explanation. She is the translation editor of Drunken Boat. Her literary and scholarly work has been featured in World Literature Today, The Kenyon Review, Translation Studies, The St Petersburg Review, Pool, and elsewhere. To read more, check out annarosenwong.com
Gregory Pardlo's collection Digest (Four Way Books) won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Digest was also shortlisted for the 2015 NAACP Image Award and was a finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. His other honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts; his first collection Totem was selected by Brenda Hillman for the APR/Honickman Prize in 2007. Pardlo's poems appear in The Nation, Ploughshares, Tin House, The Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. Pardlo lives with his family in Brooklyn. pardlo.net